Tesla K80m vs Tesla M2090

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking459not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.63no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameGF110GK210
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)17 November 2014 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5122x 2496
Core clock speed651 MHz562 MHz
Boost clock speedno data824 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million7,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate41.662x 182.2 billion/sec
Floating-point processing power1.332 TFLOPSno data
ROPs482x 48
TMUs642x 208

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length248 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB2x 12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed924 MHz5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth177.4 GB/s2x 240.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12.0 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 17 November 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 300 Watt

Tesla M2090 has 20% lower power consumption.

Tesla K80m, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M2090 and Tesla K80m. We've got no test results to judge.


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